Congressional Budget Reform Act

(a) In general. A general appropriation bill may not be considered in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union unless it includes a spending reduction account as the last section of the bill. An order to report a general appropriation bill to the House shall constitute authority for the chair of the Committee on Appropriations to add such a section to the bill or modify the figure contained therein.

(b) Amendments to spending reduction accounts

(1) In general. During the reading of a general appropriation bill for amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, it shall be in order to consider en bloc amendments proposing only to transfer appropriations from an object or objects in the bill to a spending reduction account. When considered en bloc under this paragraph, such amendments may amend portions of the bill not yet read for amendment (following disposition of any points of order against such portions) and are not subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.

(2) Point of order. Except as provided in paragraph (1), it shall not be in order to consider an amendment to a spending reduction account in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.

(c) Adjustments. The chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives shall make appropriate budgetary adjustments of new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom by the amount reflected in a spending reduction account, including adjustments to the allocations and suballocations under section 302(a) and 302(b), respectively, of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

(d) Spending reduction account defined. For purposes of this subsection, the term spending reduction account means an account in a general appropriation bill that bears that caption and contains only—

(1) a recitation of the amount by which an applicable allocation of new budget authority under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 exceeds the amount of new budget authority proposed by the bill; or

(2) if no such allocation is in effect, $0.